Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd never heard of it though I love Lucy was shown in England when I was young. It did not amuse me, Monty Python was more my type of humour :-) Frank ps are you using the word "world" to mean "USA"? On 14 Sep, 2006, at 16:55, Jeff Moore wrote: > 2006-09-14-11:27:48 Lawrence Zeitlin: >> On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Hoppy wrote: >> >>> Who is this Lucy and what is a VEGAMEATAVITAMIN? >>> Not Xena we're talking about, is it? > [...] >> I have been clearly misinformed. I throught that the sun never set on >> reruns of "I Love Lucy." > > It's impossible that anyone in the world (except perhaps for a few > semi-feral home-schooled children whose parents were convinced that > television is a "bad influence", and who therefore grew up poorly > socialized, doomed to a life drifting without any roots in shared > popular culture) could be unfamiliar with every hour of "I Love Lucy." > (I reject notions of oceans and nations and continents as > sufficient to > stop the inevitable sharing of so important and powerful a cultural > artifact.) Thus, the only possible conclusion is that Hoppy is > detail-oriented and was practising tough love with you, pretending > obtuseness because you scrambled the syllables of > "Vitameatavegamin" -- > which you, in turn, were clearly doing as an exercise in literary > license because you wished to create a stronger parallel with > Vegemite. > > http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1788283 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information